Sicilian Mafia variation.

The "F" I will leave to your imagination, but the "N" has got to be for "numbskull".  I'm surprised this thread has gone on for so long when it is apparent that Perfect Idiot is only trying to goad long (or any) responses.  He is an idiot.  He admits he is an idiot.  His name is Perfect Idiot so he is idiot enough to be proud of his standing as the village idiot.  Leave him to his idiocy and send him off to Monty Python's Village Idiot School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW3ti9mLnDg

I thought (hoped) my post #6 would be enough to shut this thread down.

I think I've worked it out, more or less. "N" stands for "nugget"...

I'm of the opinion that someone can have a lot of potential yet recieve rotten luck. Consider great athletes that never get gold medals. Consider all those kids you know who made good grades in school yet now clean toilets. Consider those that win the lottery. 

All it takes is several factors to turn against them and it can ruin their career, I don't believe there are any exceptions on any platform (not even chess). We aren't entirely masters of our fate.

Addressing randomness, well that has different meanings. I think the appropriate definition is lack of predictibility. If there was a computer larger than the universe then perhaps chess could be predictable (given that the number of possible chess games is greater than atoms in the universe).

Unfortuately no such machine exists yet. Therefore, we must be content to say that above our computational threshold chess is unpredictable, or has randomness.

If I was born child of a billionaire, I would have married a model and not have to work for my whole life.

It was just bad luck that I wasn't born so. That's unfair, and it shouldn't influentiate on my life.

I hereby demand that people feed me caviar for free and that a model marries me. 

A skewed interpretation. Adjusted for skew it would be closer to: It was improbable that I would be born to a billionaire. Therefore I am not an outlier. If I were born to a billionaire and I lost my money due to a sudden political coop where the new government took money away from rich people then that would be bad luck. An external influence beyond your control, seemingly at random that sabotages your winning streak.

Just as you could have had the good fortune (a series of favourable events, or winning streak) to be an outlier (being born a billionaire with a trophy wife), you could have had bad fortune too (a series of unfavourable events, or losing streak). All these external influences are out of your control.

If you face bad luck accept it and move on,nothing can be done.

User name saids it all

Precisely, what is your proof that you are victim of bad luck and not really as bad as your rating indicates ? Or even worse, but you had a lucky streak ?

Apart from the fact you "feel" it, I mean.

I don't know why but i want to help you improve in chess.

Btw your avatar looks stupid

Hmm, his last couple of posts show that FN_Perfect_Idiot can think and express himself coherently and rationally when he chooses to. This significantly increases my probability estimate that he is not actually an idiot and is merely trolling in some of his more obviously "idiotic" posts.

We all define our own luck...thats my point. Define..NOT decide.

Men make their own destiny, but they do not make it just as they wish.

- Is that Hegel?

no, not Hegel, a mistake; just to focus the debate, Hegel is this:

Phänomenologie des Geistes

Die Wahrheit
der Gewißheit seiner selbst

In den bisherigen Weisen der Gewißheit ist dem Bewußtsein das Wahre etwas anderes als es selbst. Der Begriff dieses Wahren verschwindet aber in der Erfahrung von ihm; wie der Gegenstand unmittelbar an sich war, das Seiende der sinnlichen Gewißheit, das konkrete Ding der Wahrnehmung, die Kraft des Verstandes, so erweist er sich vielmehr nicht in Wahrheit zu sein, sondern dies An-sich ergibt sich als eine Weise, wie er nur für ein Anderes ist; der Begriff von ihm hebt sich an dem wirklichen Gegenstande auf, oder die erste unmittelbare Vorstellung in der Erfahrung, und die Gewißheit ging in der Wahrheit verloren. Nunmehr aber ist dies entstanden, was in diesen frühern Verhältnissen nicht zustande kam, nämlich eine Gewißheit, welche ihrer Wahrheit gleich ist, denn die Gewißheit ist sich selbst ihr Gegenstand, und das Bewußtsein ist sich selbst das Wahre. Es ist darin zwar auch ein Anderssein; das Bewußtsein unterscheidet nämlich, aber ein solches, das für es zugleich ein nicht Unterschiedenes ist. Nennen wir Begriff die Bewegung des Wissens, den Gegenstand aber, das Wissen als ruhige Einheit, oder als Ich, so sehen wir, daß nicht nur für uns, sondern für das Wissen selbst der Gegenstand dem Begriffe entspricht. – Oder auf die andere Weise, den Begriff das genannt, was der Gegenstand an sich ist, den Gegenstand aber das, was er als Gegenstand, oder für ein Anderes ist, so erhellt, daß das An-sich-sein und das Für-ein-anderes-sein dasselbe ist; denn das An-sich ist das Bewußtsein; es ist aber ebenso dasjenige, für welches ein anderes (das An-sich) ist; und es ist für es, daß das An-sich des Gegenstandes und das Sein desselben für ein Anderes dasselbe ist; Ich ist der Inhalt der Beziehung und das Beziehen selbst; es ist es selbst gegen ein Anderes, und greift zugleich über dies Andre über, das für es ebenso nur es selbst ist.

well i admit it looks similar, but it is not.

..and no, not Heidegger either.

What a load of bull crap ...

Thre French translation is usually enough for me, when it is about German philosophy (Kant/Hegel/Schopenauer/etc.).

But there might be some hidden gems inside. Hidden. Very well hidden.

The naivete of some people is truly mind-boggling.  While that "Can a 1300 beat a 2700?" thread continues to live and breathe, what made you ever think that your puny post #6 could make a dent in the grand scheme of things? 

"And now I can't even go to the john...yep, I'm definitely gonna have to go see a doctor about this."

oh no sir!, just another silly mistake. that was NOT written by a bull or goat, it was written by George Wilheim Friedich Hegel himself! Bulls are not so deft at writing 1200 pages of pulp fiction as the always witty, funny, charming Mr Dingdong Hegel. (glad to clarify this point)

Translate it into English and I'm sure it would still look pretty much the same to me.